c. 610–546 BC
Anaximander and the First Map of the World
Anaximander of Miletus, a younger contemporary of Thales, is said to have drawn the first Greek map of the inhabited world. He…
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Active around 500 BC
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Heraclitus was an early Greek thinker from Ephesus. His surviving sayings emphasize the logos, the unity of opposites, the role of conflict…
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Thales of Miletus: The First Greek Philosopher
In the early sixth century BC, Thales of Miletus tried to explain the world through nature rather than myth. Later Greeks remembered…
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